Why didn't Castro try to retake Guantanamo Bay from America?

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Throughout the Cold War, US-Cuban relations weren't exactly great. Castro, Cuba's leader, never acknowledged the US' ownership of the Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay as legitimate but during the decades after he took power he never made a single concerted effort to get it back. So why not? To find out watch this short and simple animated history documentary. A special thanks to my Patreon supporters below: Rikspuckot SirJoe Myller Jillbert MajesticFirebird Scott W robert lalonde Steven B CharÉTS Brendan W Justin Kubusch Michael Kram Leonard Frank Cippalippus Thomas Halter Mik Scheper Sean Long Ted Parsons Johann_Gambolputty_of_Ulm LambOfLeg David J. Bever Magdalena Reinberg-Leibel Joel Wasserman Leland Nathan Ngumi Graham London John Orr Juan Castillo Wolf Roko Lisica Robert Brockway Bartosz Zasada Matt Busch Andreas Mosand Valentyn Oriki JT96 Colm Byrne erez87 Larz Welo Yosef Waysman Mario Peshev Donald Weaver blei95 Glassford Global Joell Bel Tristan Kreller Kevin Neuhaus Adam Probe

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